Saturday, 14 May 2016

Nuclear fire swept across the landscape, searing flora and
fauna alike.A Tidal wave of flame and
death that purged and sterilised. Regarded from afar, the firestorm was joined
by many more, blooming into existence like lotuses. They merged together until
they full encompassed the Earth. For one terrible moment, all that was still
alive on the planet knew nothing but pain. The mantle cracked and the celestial
body fractured. The Earth entered its final death throes, as cruel gravities
tore it apart.

“Did any of you guys see that?”

Buddha
regarded the shattered sphere. He watched the last fires sputter out as the
atmosphere boiled, and turned questioningly to the group.

“Of course I did, I’m All-Seeing………But why don’t you explain
for the benefit of the others?”

Buddha
rolled his eyes. He was a relatively non-threatening small fat man. In one hand
he grasped a wine gourd, and a smile continuously played across his lips He
glanced over at…. well here was the problem. They guy insisted on being called
God. Problem was that they were all gods and this made conversation a little
confusing. He was the Judeo-Christian God, and if Buddha was honest he was a
little sold on his own hype. A tall well-built man, with long dark hair and a
beard clad in white robes.

“The
Earth, it seems to have given up the ghost!”

God
joined Buddha, surveying the devastation.

“This
certainly wasn’t my work. Anyone else have a hand in this? Shiva, this has your
M.O. written all over it”

Shiva
glared at God. A beautiful blue-skinned being, with multiple arms extending
from her torso, her hands constantly danced in hypnotic patterns and in their
own language described the history of the Everything.

“Pack
it in. You know I promised to run it past everyone before I did anything like
that again.”

“All
I’m saying is that last time we turned our backs we got the Asteroid Belt. I
wouldn’t put it past you to ‘let off a little steam’ again.”

Shiva
shrug, a gesture magnified by the overabundance of appendages.

“It
wasn’t me”

She
turned to two other beings. They were identical, perfect individuals, with skin
that flowed with swirls of black and white, however whatever was projected on
one, was inverted on the other. They spoke simultaneously, with voices
distinctly different that resonated perfectly together.

“It
seems a balance was disturbed. A small strike escalated into global war and
they wiped themselves out. They seem to have a real predilection for that.”

God shifted
uncomfortably.

“That’s
all well and good, Tao, but we need to ascertain who was responsible. Did you
happen to be paying attention?”

At this
point a second confident booming voice rang out to crowd from a distance.

“Are
you going to be much longer? We’ve been waiting literally ages”

The motley pantheon turned to
inspect several factions of people, mostly dressed in white robes, all
decidedly human looking. They appeared to be engaged in a social gathering, but
were currently acting as an audience to Terra’s demise.“Zeus, I assure you that as soon
as we are ready to start again, we’ll let you know. Until then just polish your
lightning bolts or something. You had your chance and you failed.”

“No need to be like that, and
don’t think I haven’t forgiven your for stealing my look.”

“Well, you know what they say. To
err is human…”

“Oh, fuck off.”

Zeus turned back to his
compatriots and continued their toga party. Buddha chuckled to himself.

“Considering all your
similarities, I would have thought Zeus and you would get along better.”

“If I wanted to hang out with
someone similar, I would give Allah a call more often. Zeus is just a dick.
Remember the century long sex marathon through Europe. His damned offspring
were cropping up everywhere after that”

Shiva smiled at God

“And of course he’s the only one
who ever…indulged, right?”

God glared at Shiva. The subject
of his child had been a sore point for him for a while now. He was truly a
jealous God, and they had even had the gall to name the religion after his son.
He was not happy about having to share the limelight, even with family.

“Don’t start. Just because it’s
been a couple of centuries since the crusades doesn’t mean I don’t know how to
bring down the thunder. Can we get back on track here? What happened to the
Earth.”

Tao reversed time to a few
moments before the tragedy, and they all scrutinised carefully. Eventually
Tao’s voices rang out in triumph.

“We’ve found them. It’s a member
of the Russian Army. An electrical fault in his warning system led him to
believe he was witnessing the start of an all-out assault against his country
and he responded in kind.”

God waved his hands at the two.

“Yes, yes. But get to the
important stuff. What religion was he?”

“It seems he didn’t have one.
Atheist.”

As one the rest of the group
sagged in disappointment. Despite his displeasure, Buddha still grinned at the
others.

“House wins”

God stared dejectedly at the
earth as the devastation started to play at once again.

“I had the leader of the free
world following my bloody book. It was practically a certainty. I really
thought I was going to win this time.”

He swept a hand across the
fragmented tableau and it started to reassert itself into a sphere.

“Give a Zeus a shout that we are
restarting. This time I thinking we push the crocodiles rather than the apes.
Might up the hostility and speed things up.

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